Drypoint Etching

Welcome to Printmaking

"The beautiful is as useful as the useful. Perhaps more so."
Victor Hugo

What is Printmaking?

The field of art concerned with the transferal of ink or paint from a plate or block or through a screen mesh to paper. The original drawing and plate are not the work of art. The work of art is the Print itself.



What are we going to do in this Class?
In this class, we are going to make several different types of prints. The various processes will allow you to experience how prints
have been made throughout history, and in various regions of the world.

Some of the prints that we will make are:

	Art Historical Period	Type of print
1	Overview of printmaking	Paper making
2	Insular Art	Monoprinting
3	Romanesque Art	Multicolored Linoleum Block Printing
4	Byzantine Art	Collagraphs
5	Gothic Art	Stencil Printing
6	Spanish Islamic Art	Cardboard Printing
7	Art and the Black Plague	Drypoint etching
8		Solar Printing
9		Reduction Printing
10		Embossing

Why Should I Take this Class?

This class will give you the chance to create art in a new way. You will experience new techniques that will give you a wide variety of visual effects. Whereas drawing, painting and ceramics all end with one finished product, printmaking allows you to have multiple works of art at the end of the process.

Linoleum Block Printing

What are you talking about?

Here is a list of printmaking terms that will explain further.